| ▲ | cbolton 3 hours ago | |
That's... not what happened? See the timeline I posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49445897 JPEG XL is largely a Google effort including in creating the specification, the reference implementation and later a safer Rust implementation. Why would Google executives want to stop it? From what I gather it's Chrome engineers that didn't want it because it was huge, had little adoption (at the time), and was rather redundant with AVIF and WebP (for Web purposes). Not saying they didn't have related mandates from executives but they also have a lot of say in what goes in and what doesn't. | ||
| ▲ | bmacho 30 minutes ago | parent [-] | |
> Why would Google executives want to stop it? Google and Mozilla executives. The 'why' is not public knowledge. Maybe someone has a personal vendetta against some people involved in jxl. | ||